IN RESPONSE: NRA's 'guards for schools' plan rests on basis of fantasy

I was stunned to watch Wayne LaPierre's big speech, laying out the NRA's proposals.

In a nutshell: the solution to too many guns is "more guns."

He advocates arming all teachers and placing armed guards in every school. LaPierre made it clear that he represents gun manufacturers and sellers, not the common men on the street who finance his endeavors with their annual dues.

LaPierre blamed everything from video games and music to moviemakers and hurricanes for these shootings, but he left out the most important factor: the easy availability of military-style assault weapons that have flooded our country.

Those weapons kill as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time.

And what will happen to the all those weapons in schools while they're sitting around waiting for a mass killing to occur?

Could one be discovered by a suicidal student, unintentionally fired by a child or accidentally fired by a police officer?

It's fantasy to assume armed citizens are going to take out the bad guy.

Chief Justice Warren Burger was interviewed In 1991 on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour about the meaning of the Second Amendment's "right to keep and bear arms." Burger's answer: "the Second Amendment has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud — I repeat the word 'fraud' — on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime."

In 1992, Burger declared that "the Second Amendment doesn't guarantee the right to have firearms at all."

In his view, the purpose of the Second Amendment was "to ensure that the 'state armies' — 'the militia' — would be maintained for the defense of the state."